This e-mail just in from Councilwoman Hase.
To All Seniors: I just learned from our State Rep Cecily Hill that our Senator Jeff Chapman is refusing to sign the legislation the City sent to him for a $25,000 Seniors Homestead Exemption. He doesn’t agree with it. If you don’t know, as the law is right now the city has a cap on the income of seniors who can get this. The income cap is $25,000 per household. The council voted to eliminate the cap on income for seniors. If you want this bill to be passed and signed, please call him (chapman ) today. This is the last day for this to go to the legislature. If our senator wont’ sign it, it won’t happen. Our mayor talked to him yesterday and he still refuses to sign. We need to put the pressure on him. With our assessments up to extraordinary heights we all need what help we can get, and seniors do in particular. Seniors need that $25,000 off of our assessments!
If you want to call him, his number is 912-399-8683. Thanks. Deborah
In other words, if you are a senior citizen currently living in St. Marys AND your income is LESS THAN $25,000, you get $25,000 knocked off of your assessment for city taxes, thus lowering your city property tax bill.
The legislation that Chapman is refusing to sign is to remove the income cap so that the exemption is available to ALL St. Marys seniors over 65, regardless of income.
TODAY is the last legislative day for Chapman to sign this bill. Call him!
Friday, March 26, 2010
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4 comments:
I think Chapman is right. Screw DeLousy and the Osprey Cove people.
Ah, yes: the old union class envy is still alive and well evne thought the mill jobs are not.
If they are going to remove cap, I think there should be a requirement that you have to live here and pay taxes for at least 10 years before you qualify for exemptions if your income is more than a certain amount. We have people that have moved here to retire that have plenty of money. Why should the people under 65 pay more taxes to cover the expenses of these people? TAXES! TAXES! TAXES! What we need is a Fair Tax.
Well, I agre with your very last sentence anyway.
Take an honest look at your first sentence. Can't you see the obvious
"local" tribal zenophobic resentment of "damned outsiders?" These people are fellow Americans with the same right that you have to live anywhere in the country they want to. Being "from here" is just a result of where your parents happend to be residing when you were born. It confers not one single legal right upon you not available to all other Americans regardless of where they are from.
You really need to study everything you can Google on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendement.
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